“2012″ the move; Hollywood hype or fact?

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On Friday, November 13, movie theaters will begin playing the movie “2012,” an action-fiction movie that many people believe is based in fact.

Depending on what you believe, December 21, 2012 will be an ordinary day, or the beginning of a new era for Earth and the humans who live here.

Fortunately companies from Hallmark to the Hollywood-movie studios are ready to brace the population for doomsday, or something else.

According to the Mayan calendar, on which the movie “2012″ is based, the world will undergo some type of unusual event which some people believe will be chaotic. (Note: Some Hallmark stores have started selling the Mayan calendar, even though it’s been outdated since the 1500’s. This couldn’t possibly have any connection to the movie?)

For those who follow such scheduling matters, December 21, 2012 will be the last day of a 394-year cycle on an ancient calendar that started in 3114 BC. I mean, that was long before the internet!

I’m willing to bet that the inventors of this calendar couldn’t have dreamed that 394-years later anyone would remember, or even use the Mayan calendar– certainly not as the basis for a yet uninvented motion picture machine– to be filmed-and-distributed by a long undreamed-of Sony Pictures; which hopes to make the Mayan calendar wildly profitable.

There are some who believe that 12.21.12 will usher in a new cycle of world peace. Now, don’t get me wrong, that does sound pleasant, but it still doesn’t seem like you and I would be that lucky. (Unless I get a Super Target in my neighborhood.)

So I’ll keep working on my earthquake kit. I’ll have it finished long before 12.21.12, and if I’m wrong I’ll be covered either way.

–posted at 1:15 a.m. by C. Fiegener

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